Mayor Cantrell said there should be 'some level of transmission' to New Orleans late Wednesday, but cautioned that while 'significant progress' was being made, it did not mean residents could expect the lights to immediately come on across the city.
, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power, the mayor of New Orleans said Tuesday that some power might be restored to the city beginning Wednesday.
Cantrell said she got the update from the state's major power company, Entergy, which said earlier Tuesday that it could take several days to complete its damage assessment and give customers an estimated timeline to restore power.Entergy said early Tuesday that the hardest-hit areas should"expect extended power outages lasting for weeks."
Entergy said:"Essential services such as hospitals, nursing homes, fire and police departments, and water systems are at the head of the restoration list, along with our equipment that supplies electricity to large numbers of customers. Then we will concentrate our resources on getting the greatest number of customers back the fastest."
Ramsey Green, New Orleans' deputy chief administrative officer for infrastructure, said at a news conference Tuesday that Entergy was assessing all eight transmission lines to determine whether any could be quickly returned to service.Sean Rayford / Getty Images Rhodes said the loss of the tower will affect the amount of power that can flow in or out of the area and that it"could have a lasting impact, depending on how much they were counting on that line to be there to serve the load of the city."
Rhodes said crews are likely to assess and fix the transmission sector as a priority and then address problems like trees that fell onto distribution lines and lines that snapped.
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